Static Routes on Mitel

[one234]

Hello All,

Is there a way to add static IP routes to a Mitel ICP3300? For Windows you would use: route add subnet mask gateway (metric)

The reason I ask is because we have 2 gateways in the VoIP LAN. 1 for the internet access and 1 for the SIP trunk access. We want to use the Internet gateway as default gateway and the SIP trunk gateway for only 1 or more specific subnets.

We have been looking in the Linux part and we were able to add non static routes. But because they are non static they would be gone after a reboot.

So is it possible to add static IP routes in a Mitel? And is this supported by Mitel? In all other PBX’s I’m able to do it, so I kind of expect that it should be possible :


Marc D.

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[bobcheese]

Could you not just set your gateway to be the SIP gateway and then set the routes in the SIP gateway to point all non SIP traffic's next hop to be the internet gateway?

 

[one234]

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your reply.

It's not possible to add routes in the SIP gateway and the customer "doesn't" want to or can't add routes in there gateway/router.

In his opinion we need to add the routes because the gateways are in the same subnet. And I kind of agree with that in a network point of view. Every system I ever worked with is able to add static routes so I expect it’s possible within the Mitel as well.



Marc D.

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[Mitelpassion]

you can't add static routes other than a default gateway.
what linux are you refering to?

if this is a router type linux box at the customer, you can make these routes static....

 

[bobcheese]

do you have a MBG? if so you could have your SIP trunks running through this and have seperate gateways for 3300 and MBG.

 

[one234]

A colleague of mine was playing around with it and he managed to get it to work with non persistent static routes. He was playing around in de Linux/Unix/VXWorks or whatever OS the Mitel 3300 MXe is working on.

He was able to add the routes in the OS BUT after a reboot the routes are gone.

And like I said before I really can't believe that static routes aren't implemented in a machine that you can connect to a network. Static routes are 1 of the most basic options I can think of in a networking environment.



Marc D.

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[DomingoDolores]

I had the same a while ago at a customer site.
I added the routes with their gateway in the HP procurve switch which was connected to the LAN ports.

This is the most easy way to add 'static' routes which can be used bij the 3300ICP

All you need is layer3 switches

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[one234]

Hi Ben,

Thx for the reply.

I know that a solution would be to add the routes in a L3 switch or a router.

The customer is using a Linux based router and they added the routes to the box. So for now things are working.

BUT the customer needs to restart the box multiple times a week (Dont ask me way , he just needs to do it...) and during a restart, you can probably guess, all external calls are cut of...

So to avoid this problem we need to add the routes in the Mitel.


Marc D.

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[Mitelpassion]

it would be easier to persue 'fixing' the issue on the linux router as opposed to the Mitel.

maybe they could write a script that adds the routes during startup

 

[whykap]

Maybe they should buy a "real" router instead of expecting their phone system to do the work of a routing device that has to be rebooted all the time.
It would be the same thing as you telling him that the 3300 has to be rebooted all the time for some reason, and therefore the router has to route all the calls and keep the phones up during that time.
So I agree with Mitelpassion here.

 

[one234]

I would like to thank you all for the replies but this is getting me nowhere.

I don’t need answers like "add the routes to the router" and "the customer needs to fix his router". I know that are options if I want to use 1 gateway in a subnet. But if I have 2 gateways in the same subnet I want to add static routes in the machine that connects to that subnet. We do that in Windows, Linux, Nortel, Avaya, Cisco, etc, etc.

All I want to know is:

Is it possible to add static routes in a Mitel switch? And if that is possible how do we do that.

And again, I do appreciate all the replies and suggestions but they are all pointing in the wrong direction (In my opinion).



Marc D.

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[DomingoDolores]

Its not possible in the Mitel itself.

You need a work around with linking the 2 LAN ports to 2 different routers and add the routes in there.

Sorry

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[kwbMitel]

one234 - The Mitel is designed to operate in a strictly voice environment. The functionality you are looking for is not required when the network is designed according to the Mitel Engineering guidelines. You appear to be trying to make the Mitel fit into your network model instead. I suggest you review the engineering guidelines for Network design with a Mitel and see if your network design is supported. I suspect not.

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[JimHilton]

If you have linux you have a "real" router.

This is a snippet from the website at the link below:

Task: Display Current Routing Table Using ip command

By using the ip command, you can setup and view static route. For example, to display current routing table you can type command:
# ip route show
Sample output:

192.168.2.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.1
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.2
default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth0

You can add static route using following command:
ip route add {NETWORK} via {IP} dev {DEVICE}
For example network 192.168.55.0/24 available via 192.168.1.254:
# ip route add 192.168.55.0/24 via 192.168.1.254 dev eth1
Alternatively, you can use old good route command:
# route add -net 192.168.55.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.254 dev eth1
Linux Persistence Routes

The drawback of 'ip' or 'route' command is that, when Linux reboots it will forget static routes. So store them in configuration file. Static routing describes a system that does not implement adaptive routing. In these systems routes through a data network are described by fixed paths (statically). These routes are usually entered into the router by the system administrator

Check out

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/configuring-static-routes-in-debian-or-red-hat-linux-systems.html

fore more info

 

[slapin]

This question is more like how to setup a Linux based router. If you are not familiar with command line interface and configuration files for generic Linux system, then you need a specialized distro which has easy to use admin tools embedded:
Endian Firewall 2.1
EnGarde Secure Linux
EnGarde Secure Server
Feather Linux
Featherweight Linux
Gibraltar Firewall
Honeywall
IPCop Firewall
Lineox Enterprise Linux
Linux from scratch
Network Security Toolkit
Openwall GNU*Linux
SME Server
Smoothwall
StartCom Enterprise Linux AS
Sun JDS
SUSE
Topologilinux
TFM Linux
Tiny Sofa
Trixbox
Trustix Enterprise Firewall
Trustix Secure Linux
Ultima Linux
VoIPonCD
White Box Enterprise Linux
YellowDog
YES Linux
Zenwalk Linux
ZoneCD/select
(and im sure many many more)

The list was borrowed from here

http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...3/suggestions-for-linux-router-distro-674631/